Report indicates that 100 members of the Boko Haram sect have been killed in Cameroon, with 900 people it had held hostage rescued by the country’s military.

According to the AFP, Cameroon army’s spokesman, Colonel Didier Badjeck, said troops had conducted a sweep operation between November 26 and 28 along Cameroon’s long border with Nigeria.

He said large supplies of arms and munitions as well as black-and-white Islamic State flags were seized in the operations.

The Nigerian military has however not confirmed the incident.

Cameroon has contributed troops to the 8,700-strong regional Multi-National Joint Task Force also comprising troops from Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Benin Republic with the goal of destroying Boko Haram, which has carried out a campaign of violence in the region.

The group, seeking to establish an Islamic state and end Western education in region,  had in March 2015 pledge allegiance to the Islamic State.